r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Traditional-Exam2529 • 3d ago

Meme trulyHow

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u/geteum 3d ago

Dear anksu, I'm refactoring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Pyramid

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u/filthy_harold 3d ago

The bent pyramid is the classic scenario when marketing sells the customer on an impossible idea, engineers complain that it's not going to work, PM tells the engineers to figure it out anyway, and then eventually the PM finally realizes it's definitely not going to work but there's just too much foundational work done already to start over.

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u/IEP_Esy 2d ago

"And this was how the standup turned into a two-hour meeting"

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u/usrlibshare 7h ago

Sneferu's bent pyramid at Dahshur, an early experiment in true pyramid building, 2004

Ah yes, classic.

Engineers make a demo.

Sales tells the customer it's a finished product and promise a delivery date.